In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful
Chapter Four Hundred and Eleven: On Knowing the Mutual Encounter ‘The Book Takes Precedence over Him, So He Enters the Fire,’ from the Presence ‘He Almost Did Not Enter the Fire’
Fear the Book, and do not fear Me, for I and you are on equal terms. Concerning such a thing He, exalted is He, said: ﴿The word is not changed with Me﴾, ﴿and I am not unjust to the servants﴾ [Qāf 50:29], because the Book rules over everyone: ﴿Is one against whom the word of torment has become due﴾ [al-Zumar 39:19].
How difficult the matter is for the discerning possessor of intellect!
Fear of the Book has driven away my sleep,
For its ruling holds within existence and within us.
We have read it explicitly in the Book,
And seen it there as certain truth.
God is feared only because of a being
Originating from Him that has descended upon the worlds.
(The Book's Precedence and the Endings of Deeds)
The Messenger of God, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said, as authentically related from him: ‘A man performs the deeds of the people of the Garden, as it appears to people, until nothing remains between him and the Garden
